Annals of Bioethics & Clinical Applications (ABCA)

ISSN: 2691-5774

Research Article

The Haitian Educational Problematic

Authors: Mocombe PC*

DOI: 10.23880/abca-16000107

Abstract

In this work, using a structurationist approach, phenomenological structuralism, to understanding the constitution of society and practical consciousness, I argue that Haiti's educational model is a colonial one, an ideological apparatus established by a French-speaking minority, the mulatto elites and petit-bourgeois blacks, i.e., Affranchis, in order so that they can participate in the global capitalist world-system as descendants of their former colonial administrators while the African majority are interpellated and subjectified as laborers for sports and the entertainment industries, tourism, and export agriculture and manufacturing jobs provided by America, France, and Canada. Thus, in Haiti the attempt for a long time has been on following the black American bourgeois model of integration into the capitalist world-system by integrating the masses into the social class language game of their former colonial slavemasters (the French) at the expense of constituting their own social class language based on the Kreyol language and Vodou metaphysics of the majority of the African inhabitants of the country.

Keywords: Vodou Ethic; Spirit of Communism, Structurationism; Vodou; Dialectical; Anti-dialectical; Affranchis; Bois Caiman; Boukman Dutty; Phenomenological Structuralism; Haitian Epistemology; Haitian/Vilokan Idealism

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